Nigeria FG returns toll gates on federal highways

The Federal Government on Wednesday announced of plans to ensure the return toll gates on the federal highways in the country.

The decision came after being phased out more a decade ago.

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated this while briefing State House Correspondents on the decision taken at the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja.

Fashola, flanked by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said there was no law that stopped the government from having toll gate on federal roads.

He said, “There is no reason why we can’t toll, there was a policy of government to abolish tolls or as it where, dismantle toll plaza but there is no law that prohibits tolling in Nigeria today. We expect to return toll plazas, we have concluded their designs of what they will look like, what materials they will be rebuilt with, what new considerations must go into them.

“What we are looking at now and trying to conclude is how the bank end runs.”

Fashola said that government was also considering to eliminate payment of cash by introducing electronic mode of payment.

The Minister further disclosed that government needed to acquire more lands to expand the width of the toll gates as it proposed to have a ten lane.

https://punchng.com/fg-returns-toll-gates-on-federal-highways/amp/

Question for FG though.
1. Who is benefiting from this?
2. Where would all the money generated go into
3. Are there plans around security of these tolls
4. What is the long term plan for the tolls
5. If you insist there is no law abolishing tolls, Can we now have a law that either accepts or prohibits it so FG doesn't keep wasting task payers money building and destroying tolls?

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